The real goal is to then charge the user $2.99 to block their camera from being turned on.
I would do this for just 1.99
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Not2Dopey@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Dhar@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Make it an auction
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 days ago
“fuck, I don’t have enough money for park avenue”
lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 days ago
Do it and you’d see my camera cover
glitch1985@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I prefer the classic post it note personally.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
I feel that a faulty webcam driver that causes a kernel panic would work best. They turn your camera on and you drop from the call.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 6 days ago
All you would see is my camera cover, lol
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 days ago
I think Dell once patented a mechanical cover system for their laptops.
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 6 days ago
All the laptops I have owned over the last 10 years have a mechanical shutter to cover the camera. None have been Dell.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 days ago
You like looking at the back of a piece of electrical tape?
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 5 days ago
All you would see is my floor and a pile of wires
My webcam falls off and I just leave it there
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 days ago
tbh I’d be more likely to want to turn it off
BennyInc@feddit.org 6 days ago
You’d get a pious, stating that someone paid 1.99 to turn your camera an. For just 5.99 you can make sure it stays off.
This could also be implemented as a bidding war like eBay.
peregrin5@lemm.ee 6 days ago
This is like that libertarian/ancap copypasta.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 6 days ago
Yknow one great thing that costs about 1.99 (one time cost)?
Those little plastic slidy bits that cover up the laptop webcam and mic.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
It’s weird that people used to be concerened with covering their laptop camera, but people don’t care about their phone camera.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
“Most of the time your phone is in your pocket” he says writing on his phone…
grozzle@lemm.ee 5 days ago
i really miss pop-up cameras on phones.
good peace of mind knowing the fucker is tucked away inside.
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Some laptops come with that built in, or you could use some scotch tape and a little square of paper for free
Belgdore@lemm.ee 6 days ago
I used the sticky part of a post-it before I had a laptop with a built in slider
Turret3857@infosec.pub 6 days ago
love my frameworks mic and camera hardware switches.
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 6 days ago
One of it’s greatest features.
ytg@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Fortunately, browsers have safeguards against this sort of thing (activating the camera without user interaction)
…right?
billwashere@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Zuck always has a piece of tape over his camera when you see his laptop. That’s all you need to know.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
I saw probably the same photo as you! The article wasn’t even about that, we just noticed it in the photo. I immediately went and taped over my camera.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
TBF, dude has probably the entire world trying to hack him, the avergae person doesn’t have that high of a risk.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Both my work laptop and personal laptop have mechanical shutters that can only be opened by hand.
They’re both Thinkpads.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 5 days ago
They hand those out at conventions too (or you can buy them, I guess). It’s basically just a small sticker that you can just stick over your shutterless camera and now it has a shutter.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
One of the main motivating factors for me to get a Lenovo.
lud@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Most Dell latitudes and precisions also have a physical shutter.
I love that feature. It makes me more comfortable around the computer because no one can look at me without my consent.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Just last week we found a bug in our system in that if an user accepts a meet on pc while also having the phone app open, the meet is opened in both devices, - that alone could end very badly.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 5 days ago
In my experience people click accept without reading or thinking, and usually remember this setting which they may have already done previously.
In any case all my cameras have physical blockers
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Browsers and some operating systems.
ramble81@lemm.ee 6 days ago
It’s a fucking joke and so many of you are being smug with “not me!”
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Half the userbase is on the spectrum, and cannot discern satire from a serious post.
Patrik@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Laddie, the whole Internet is going so to shit, that it’s hard to discern satire from real bullshit.
jim3692@discuss.online 6 days ago
Is this legit? Brave’s AI summary claims that Teams indeed gives this option to the host. However, it points to a Teams documentation page that does not mention such feature.
cashsky@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
AI
Why would you trust any AI like that
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Holy shit.
He’s at -41 right now, and you at +22.
He obviously isn’t trusting the AI, he’s asking here to verify it since he couldn’t find any first-hand information to contradict it.
Lemmy is already getting to be more fucking toxic than reddit. JFC.
jim3692@discuss.online 6 days ago
I don’t blindly trust AI responses. However, that was way too concerning not to ask about it, considering that I work from home and that we use Teams.
genuineparts@infosec.pub 6 days ago
It’s either my broken self or a symptom of the time that I cannot tell if this is a honest question. I hope it isn’t.
Just in case: It’s not a real thing. Yet.
jim3692@discuss.online 6 days ago
It was an honest question. I have seen various other horrible features, like Glassdoor allowing paying employers to remove negative ratings, so I freaked out a bit in case Teams has hidden features as well.
I know this is shitpost, but since there was another indication of such feature existing (although untrustworthy - the Brave Search’s AI summary), I wanted to confirm.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Beyond the other answers stating that this isn’t real:
Teams doesn’t do one off charges for functionality like this. All functionality is managed by licensing, managed through your workplace’s Azure tenant. Don’t have the license, don’t have the feature. Need the feature? Time to work with Microsoft billing to get you a new license (or additional one) and then your IT team to have the license applied to your account.
There aren’t usually any upsells displayed to end users. In our environment we’ve only seen a rare “this functionality is not available on your license, go complain to your admin” type message, but usually it just doesn’t display unavailable options.
On top of all that, Microsoft is dumb, but not this dumb. Last thing their team of lawyers would want is for them to be involved in some sort of “involuntary pornography” case or something.
missandry351@lemmings.world 5 days ago
My camera has a cover 😂😂😂 I hope you like your screens pitch black because it’s the only thing you will see
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I just don’t plug a camera in
yonder@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
$4.99 to plug in their camera
Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Considering the implications for making that happen, that’s hella cheap.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Shit, I’d pay more than that each time.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
But i thought everyone helicopters during meetings. How else am i supposed to meet my step goal
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Don’t try this in an elementary school virtual classroom, or you have a chance of going straight to jail
tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Join the NSA and get paid for it
starbrite@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Does the person on the other end get a notification or do they just remain oblivious to their boss spying on them?
genfood@feddit.org 6 days ago
No usually you do not get an immediate notification, but you can indeed see it by constantly checking you small camera window in the corner of the meeting. But you have to stay focused.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Jokes on you, I got mic and cam on a physical USB-switch. So unless I go in “conference mode”, your attack is futile
terminhell@lemmy.world 5 days ago
What app is this?!
genfood@feddit.org 5 days ago
This is the new version of Microsoft Tesms
jojowasher@lemmy.world 4 days ago
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I’d honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)
boreengreen@lemm.ee 6 days ago
The goal with software like windows is to eventualy take away all control. If you can run unaproved software, you can’t even join the teams call. Then you will see stuff like this.
elvith@feddit.org 6 days ago
I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Years ago, I’d laugh at this.
Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It’s bad enough that we’ve essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.
On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I’ve had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 days ago
This, but it’s not a loop 😏